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Old March 25th, 2009, 10:40 PM   #287 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by OaklandA View Post
The mod is to lower the pickups very far down....about flush for the neck pickup and a bit higher for the bridge. The top facing magnet screws are then heightened a full turn and then to volume adjustment. The bottom facing (hidden) mag screws are backed out a full two turns.

This takes a lot of the muffled sound out of these...particularly for the neck and opens them up a bit.
I read that somewhere else (here on another forum?) and I tried it and it was really bad sounding - maybe I did it wrong, but I think when you get the magnets that far up from the bobbin windings it sounded too weak (and I like weaker pickups). However - when I lowered the magnets back into the bobbin even more than they originally were set - raised the pickup up closer to the strings - voila! Sounded better - maybe not anything like an original or Telenators revamped ones, but better to me at least.
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